UN HERALD AND NEWS
ALIFQRNIA
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I SACRAMENTO, Jan. 27 OP)
l fhe Stith regular session was
J on the home stretch today atter
lotiinfr nn machinery for com-
5 mittee hearings on controversial
t issues during a 36-day recess,
5 officially scheduled to start at
'Bp. m. this alternoon.
I - An nvalanche of bills descend
S ed during the closing hours. Tho
I day started with zoui Dins, ex
! elusive of hundreds of resolu
i tlons, already introduced in the
i two houses. A thousand or
1500 more were in prospect
i with the Dossibility existing an
l all-tlmo high mark would be
tel.
1 k There were six health msur-
nnp.i hills already on file with
i separate assembly and senate
commmees cumuu&biuneu iu
back after the legislature re
convenes March o. Chairman
Fred Kraft (R) San Diego an
nounced his assembly public
health committee would conauci
hearings at San Diego, February
13, Los Angeles, February 15-16-17,
Fresno, February 28 and
' San Francisco, March 2-3.
-. rm. nniiannmanla onri
cover the same subject in hear-
l Irigs at Sacramento without
louring ine situe.
-' Declaring he thinks a fight
between "the country boys and
the lily boys" will stymie leg
islation to increase the state
gasoline tax, Senator Randolph
Collier (R), Yreka, brought m a
resolution to establish a fact
finding committee on state high
ways. "Everyone seems to be for a
gas tax increase except the peo
ple" he said. He disclosed he
has withdrawn his own bill to
boost the tax, having changed
his mind as to the need after
reading . the governor's budget
showing an expected $40,000,-
000 surplus in the highway fund
at the end of the biennium.
Exemption of Oregon
;From Dimout Urged
1 PORTLAND, Jan. 27 (JP) A
"telegram urging that the region
Served by Bonneville power ad
ministration be exempted from
the February 1 nation-wide dim
put ordered as a fuel-saving
tmeasure was before the war
production board today.
f Hydroelectric ' energy from
Bonneville and Grand Coulee
dams, which replaces fuel as a
power source, makes it unneces
sary for the northwest to elim
inate outdoor lighting, declared
Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonneville
administrator. He said the Idaho-Utah
region as well as Ore
gon and Washington could be
supplied by the Bonneville
Grand Coulee system.
Forestry Program
Set For Lawmakers
' SALEM, Jan'. 27 (iT) The
Forestry Products foundation,
a newly - organized non - profit
corporation, held its first meet
ing here yesterday and elected
Herbert J. Cox, Eugene, presi
dent. ' Other officers are Dr. Paul
M..Dunn, Corvallis, vice presi
dent, and B. T. McBain, Mil
waukic, secretary-treasurer.
The foundation will campaign
for additional funds for a forest
products laboratory at Oregon
State college, McBain asserting
the industry probably would fi
nance the project.
The main purpose of the
foundation is to discover new
uses for waste forest products.
Artillery Submarine
May Be Nazi Weapon
LONDON, Jan. 27 (P) The
French news agency today
fluoled Ankara reports that one
of 'Germany's new secret wea
pons is an "artillery submarine"
which might be used for terror
bombardments of American
coastal cities.
Neutral travelers who reached
the Turkish, city were declared
to have said the submarines were
in the final stages of construc
tion. But the program was reported
delayed by patriot sabotage so
that there was little chance they
could be used before the fall of
Berlin.
Portland Civic
Center Proposed
PORTLAND, Jan. 27 (P)
State officials want to submit
plans for a slate building in
Portland to the current legisla
ture, Prof. Charles McKinley
told a joint meeting of the city
council and planning commis
sion. :. , . ..
The council was urged to de
clare its intention to build a
civic center because, the com
mission said, other agencies are
Waiting to suggest buildings.
Robinson's Delivery Service
y
Under New Management-
ART ROBSON, Owner
Phone 7423 from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Bttuidir J". IT. 14S
Flashes of
Life
ODD SHORTAGE
NEW YORK, Jan, 27 W)
Magistrate Harry G. Andrews
expressed doubts that a cigarette
shortage exists when he counted
43 persons in his court who had
violated the law prohibiting
smoking in stores and factories.
He collected $430 in fines.
NOT WORTH IT
SEATTLE, Jan. 27 P Capt.
Stuart B. Mockford, sent his
necktie to the OPA.
In an accompanying letter he
explained the khaki cotton tie
cost 16 cents four years ago at
Fort Francis Warren, Wyo., and
had depreciated approximately
40 per cent, but it still cost 20
cents to have it laundered in Se
attle. "I can no longer afford to pay
100 per cent , more than it is
worth to have it washed," the
captain wrote.
SATIATED
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 27 UP) A
sailor visited a USO center here
m a recent stopover. Elbowing
her way through the crowd, a
solicitious hostess inquired about
nis neaitn.
"I m okay, but I have a slight
sore throat," the sailor said.
'Have you tried garKlme with
salt water?" she asked.
Lady, you re asking me
who's been torpedoed three
times?"
EFFETE
BOISE. Idaho. Jan. 27 UP)
The big tough truck driver of
yore is gone, says George L.
Norstrom of Portland, president
of the Oregon Motor Transport
association.
The modern driver, Norstrom
predicts, is more likely to be the
mild professional type, "prob
ably a college graduate and may-
De even a snaKespearun scnoi-
ar. -
He credited "new, luxurious"
motor trucks for the change.
Medical Center For
Workers Proposed
PORTLAND.' Jan. 27 P) A
medical center to examine work
ers and help place them in indus
tries suited to their physical con
dition was proposed today by the
Kaiser company medical direc
tor. ,
Dr. Forrest E. Rieke told a
shipyard labor-management com
mittee tnat such a center would
aid workers moving to smaller
peacetime industries which do
not have the first-aid services
of the shipyards.
meKe proposed an industrial
health foundation, financed by
employers, and providing exam-
Miaiiuiia mm juiurmauon tnrougn
cooperation of labor, manage
ment, and physicians.
Chinese, Soldier
Hurt In Race Battle
SPOKANE! Jan. 27 fPI Po
lice Captain Lee Markwood said
today two Chinese and a soldier
received knife wounds late last
night in a fight at a cafe with
a man who told two of the men
they were Japanese and that he
intended to kill them.
Markwood said Ginfont
Wong, Louie Weng and PFC
Robert W. Jones were treated
at a hospital for stabbing injur
ies. Jones was injured when he
attempted to assist the other
men, Markwood said.
The officer said Lawrence
Rogers, 38, was being held on
a charge of assault.
Fag Sales to Aid
'March' Said Illegal
PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 27 (,Pi
A drug sure proprietor who
amassed $300 for the March of
Dimes through cigarette sales
was cited today to appear before
the OPA violations head.
David Weiner at the sugges
tion of a tobacco-hungry custom
er was selling a carton of ciear-
cttes at the $1.28 ceiling price to
all buyers who put the change
cs i:ii it- i:
Hum a f j urn iinu inu anu-inian-
tile oaralysis fund. Arrival of
an OPA investigator halted a
rushing business.
McDannell Brown, Portland
district OPA director, termed
the sale an illegal "tyine-in"
agreement.
RANCH SOLD
CANYON CITY, Jan. 27 (ff)
The Laycock ranch, one of the
largest in the John Day valley,
has been sold to Frank and Joe
Oliver by George Fell, Fell an
nounced today.
Yes, they are still going up
IKorn Uh.9 tlt... -- ,
Chase's office. Room 203, Odd
i snows Duuaing to have thoir
Income Tax figured out. Let
Chase chase it down.
Allen Adding Machines
Friden Calculators
Royal Typewriters
Desks Chairs Files
For those hard-to-get items
PIONEER PRINTING
AND STATIONERY CO.
124 So. Sth Klamath Falls
lie
War's Innocent Victim
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in
fSiffiinl Corps pholo rom NEA)
Pvt. James Dun of Brooklyn, n 1st Armored Division medic,
dressed the bnck nf n small Italian boy who was wounded by frag
ments of tho shell that killed his mother. The boy's father had
been taken away by Germans, to work in a labor battalion His
aunt, who holds him, brought him through the German lines to
U. S. forces in the San Benedetto area.
By The Associated Press
The Western front: Allies
seized initiative all along
front; British and Americans
closed up to Roer; Americans
in center swept to German
border on broad front against
vanishing resistance; Germans
in Alsace driven back to start
ing point of latest attack;
French threatened Colmar.
Russian front: Red army
drove to bay of Danzig, tight
ening noose on East Prussia;
drove close . to Konigsberg,
East Prussian capital; ad
vanced on both sides of Poz
nan in central Poland, 136
miles from Berlin at nearest
officially announced point;
advance columns beyond
besieged B r e s 1 a u were
143 miles from Berlin; Hin
denburg, industrial city in up
per Silesia, captured.
Italian front: Heavy rains
limit front to patrol activity.
Pacific front: Americans
driving down central Luzon
plain met first appreciable
resistance south of Bamban
river Friday; Japanese artil
lery shelled captured Clark
field.
Coast Lumbermen
Reelect President .,
TACOMA, Jan. 27 (IP) The
West Coast Lumbermen's asso
ciation at its annual meeting
yesterday returned Dean John
son of Portland to the presi
dency and named C. H. Krcien
baum vice president for Wash
ington, G. T. Gerlinger of Port
land vice president for Oregon
and Jud Greenmcn, Vernonia,
Ore., treasurer.
Forestry Products
Foundation Meets
OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 27 (P)
A forestry program intended to
insure sawmill villages against
a "ghost town" fate may soon
be asked of Washington's 29th
legislature.
The forestry project, outlined
by federal regional foresters
called for sales on a non-competitive
basis instead of on com
petitive bidding.
Fedaral, state and private tim
ber owners would pledge their
holdings to the program, and the
timber sales would be planned
to stabilize the future of com
munities dependent upon the log
ging industry.
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MUSIC by BALDY'S BAND
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Children Asked Not
To Play On Grounds
Of Postoffice Here
According to Harold, Hen
drickson, county juvenile officer,
children have been playing
around the postoffice building
during the evenings, and as a re
sult many of the shrubs and
trees have been mistreated and
broken. Hendrickson has spoken
to Burt E. Hawkins, postmaster,
about this problem, and has
asked the cooperation of all chil
dren to stay away from tho post
office grounds, ,and particularly
away from the small shrubs.
A great deal of time and ef
fort has been spent on making
the grounds around the post
office something that the citi-
I zens of Klamath Falls may be
proud ot, and therefore, it is nec
essary to have the cooperation
of everyone in keeping the land
scape in good condition.
Traffic Accidents
May Reach Record
SALEM, Jan. 27 (P) Oregon's
January traffic death toll prob
ably will be the highest in many
years, with 19 persons killed in
the first 19 days of the month,
Secretary of State Robert S. Far
roll Jr., said today.
The 19-day toll is the same as
for the entire month of January,
1943, and four less than in Janu
ary, 1944.
Glaring headlights was the
largest single factor in the big
death rate.
Elderly Women Battle
Oyer Aged Boy Friend
PORTLAND, Jan. 27 (P) A
70-year-old "boy friend" of two
women over 60 was the object
of a quarrel that landed one in
jail, Detective M. A. McMeekcn
said today.
Mary Fisco, 68, was accused
of striking Alice Dean, 62, with
a hammer because she "stole her
boy friend."
Hock Wool
INSULATION
Blown In
Saves Your Fuel
Free Estimates
SUBURBAN
Lumber Company
Phone 7709
of Dimes
SHANNON'S
Starting 7 P. M.
U. S. AFFECTED BY
COAST RACE PUZZLE
PORTLAND, Jim. 27 (VT)
Tho northwest s iiUlludo in tho
next few years toward minority
racial groups, will bom- signific
ance for the entire nation, says
A. L. Llverlght, director of the
American Council on Race Re
lations. : , .
"If truo freedom of work and
living opportunities cannot be
maintained here, then there is
little hope that it can bo done
anywhere," ho declared hero.
Only 10.000 of tho 50.00U-7S,.
000 expected to be unemployed
after the war can find work
in now Industries, hu told live
city club. Race and minority
hatreds thrive under such con
ditions, ho warned, urging lie
tivo community planning to off
set conditions.
An influx ' o f i negroes and
southern whites to this area has
awakened old resentments dang
erous to western ideals of free
dom, said Liveright, also the
war manpower commission's
chief field representative.
He proposed studies of labor
groups for possible discrimina
tion. Plans for postwar build
ing to provide decent living
conditions for all residents, and
appointment of n city race re
lations committee.
U. S. Woman Works
With Underground
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 27 W)
An American woman who with
fivo French nationals contrived
the escape of 10 United Nations
fliers from occupied France is
here describing her experiences.
She is Mine. Drue Ley ton
Tartiere, formerly of Stintn
Monica, Calif., who worked ac
tively In the French under
ground for three years. Two
American airmen among 32
whoso escape she personally
supervised also will make per
sonal appearances here through
February 2.
The gestapo sometimes caught
up with men who went out
with escaping fliers and their
victims came back "in terrible
shape," she related.
"Their hands would look like
raw meat, their fingernails
would have been pulled out,
and they would be suffering
from baths the nazis gave them
in some horrible solution," she
shuddered, "but they wouldn't
have talked."
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BLAKE TRAINS
MERRILL Albert Ulakc, for-nu-rlv
associated with the M'1'
"ill branch of the Shell O con
raining with IhcU. S. army In
fantry at Camp Huberts, lilako
was inducted about TluiiiltifKlv-
log. ins wiie,
lilako ai.d young duuuhtei' K .
arc wun nun m ' i"
but plan to return u Men 111 '
niiiKo tneir nimie km
lion. Mrs. ltliiuo Is U' th"Whlt i
of Mr. and Mrs. Mux Hiirtlerodo
turn uniKu i "' , .
Mrs. Tom A, Ulultc, Muniulli
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WAC TRANSFERRED
Pvt. Madge L. Coleman, J0R
.. xw.mhm' n( the WOI11'
en's army corps, recently lert
first WAC training center at
Des Moines, liiwn, for duty w'tn
the annv at wiuningum. v.m.
WAC units are now at work
...HI. II... ..,.., , mm'ii llltlll 'Jtlll
posts In all 48 stales, the District
of Columbia and In nil major
theaters overseas, iney iimy r
r..M...t I.. i.Viiiiiiv Kniiltinil. Afri
ca, Italy, New Caledonia. India,
Hawaii, New utnnvu aim
traliii.
SCHMITZ GETS DFC
no TENTH A I It FOItt'K. IN
BURMA The Distinguished Fly
ing Cross has been awarded to
2nd Lt. Lawrence J. SchmlU,
21, son ot Mr. William Schmilz,
317 Lincoln. Klamath Falls, It
was announced recently by the
10th Air Force's cninandlng gen
eral, MaJ. Gen. Howard C. Dav
idson.
A pilot for the 2nd troop car-
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Meat Cutting
and
Curing Plant
Wo cut and wrap moot
for your lockers and
smoko your hams and
bocom
Phone 4282 919 E. Main
J. Ralston, Agent
Extra
Knrielu'd
for
ADDED NUTRITION
mmwm
rl.r tqtmdron of Urn 10th !r
force Unit operate, agnln.t the
Jans tlirotiKhout tho India-Bin'-
theater. U. Sfhm l whu also
holds Hie air medal, li e Milked
nn 41.1 combat hours during his
rive months of service in thin ec-
'"'ills wife. Virginia, iviilrtoii In
Lowlston, Ma. t
MAMNEP. MEDAL GIVEN
William Di'inaril Flury, Chll
miuln, son of Mr. and Mm, dies
lor l' hiry of that place, him been
awarded the Mariner modal, It
was announced today by tho
war department.
Kliiry, lO-year-old chief idinv
aid on a Liberty nhl which
was torpedoed tiUO niiU'8 ufr
Colombo. Ceylon, on Juno 11,
Ili-U, was one of 211 nurvlvor
tiillowliiK an attack by lh Jap
submarine crew, Complement ul
Ihe Liberty ship at the time it
whs hit was lull, amii'dlim to
official liituiinatloii. Flury wait
nn hi second vo.vnKO at tho
lime of the t r a u 0 d y. Ho re
turned to Chllotiuln in Decem
ber. Election of City
Judges Proposed
l'()l(TI"ANO, Jan, 27 M7
A drive for popular election of
municipal Judaea on a nonparl
K1111 ballot hero wun launched
la.sl nliiht by lh Multnomah
lliir a.iMielullon.
The plan, which tho associa
tion intend to place on the
ballot al Ihe next election,
would iilve Indue four-year
terms and rliihl of appeal to
the circuit court If removed
from office becaune of malfeas
ance, They me now named by
the city council and have no
appeal.
David Simmons, llouslon,
Te.v,, American liar association
president, will speak here Feb.
20, at was announced at the
nieetlnK.
It 111 0 "troien" arlielo vou
need, advertise tor u used one
in tho classified.
Jusi Stevvivvd!
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